Associations to the word «Transcendentalist»

TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. One who believes in transcendentalism.

TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. A group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

TRANSCENDENTALIST, noun. Advocate of transcendentalism.